Diego Rivera: A Biography

154 Pages·2011·0.86 MB·English

by  Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

DIEGO RIVERA
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DIEGO RIVERA
A Biography
Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
and Erika Cabrera
GREENWOOD BIOGRAPHIES
Copyright 2011 by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and Erika Cabrera
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel.
Diego Rivera : a biography / Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and Erika Cabrera.
p. cm. — (Greenwood biographies)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-313-35406-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-313-35407-6
(ebook) 1. Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957. 2. Painters—Mexico—Biography.
I. Cabrera, Erika. II. Title.
ND259.R5A84 2011
759.972—dc23
[B] 2011023984
ISBN: 978-0-313-35406-9
EISBN: 978-0-313-35407-6
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To Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and all artists who,
searching for the meaning of life, express their love,
sorrow, and truth through their art.

CONTENTS
Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Timeline: Events in the Life of Diego Rivera xv
Chapter 1 Childhood and Artistic Formation (1886–1906) 1
Chapter 2 The European Period (1907–1921) 15
Chapter 3 Murals of the 1920s 29
Chapter 4 Rivera in the United States (1930–1933) 47
Chapter 5 Again in Mexico (1934–1941) 67
Chapter 6 Rivera and His Mexican Murals
of the 1940s (1941–1949) 81
Chapter 7 The Final Years (1950–1957) 97
Bibliography 115
Index 119

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